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Show THE SUPERMAN AND OTHER MEN. A day last week the Xew York World, in its department devoted to "Public Opinion,' printed the following: follow-ing: Germany a Nation of Supermen. "To the Editor of The World - "What you and your fellow-Americans do not understand and are not to be blamed for not understanding Is that Germany is not a nation; it is a law of nature. It is something that civilization has never befur. Been, the genesis of a new and different dif-ferent race of men. as far superior j to the present low human order as that is to the simians' that preceded it. The German is the superman thai certain of your own tongue Bernard Shaw and Houston ihambei Iain-foresaw, Iain-foresaw, a being of different ethics, I religion, law, government, from anything any-thing before known. Consequently Germany is not to be judged by the antiquated standards of Interior people. peo-ple. "In the progress of the cosmic order or-der the German's function is this: To synthesize the world. The present or der has achieved its utmost; it can go no further Its best is a mere veneered materialism There is no such thing as humanity. There .ire only numerous disorderly, unhappy, discordant greedy groups, of partially partial-ly rhilizeo humans that in a million yeara could not make one step of real advance. It is the German s business busi-ness to build up a new world that shall be one harmonious, rational, wise, beautiful, progressive. Your Christianity has failed. Your democracy democ-racy is a Joke or a tragedy. All that (111 haVC lnamorl In r.nn.n "" w ".w u o.iciivvr, ail, uju- 8ic, municipal government. Industry, you have simply appropriated from Germany. "Watch now this old world being beaten out by Thor's hammer into form and beauty and use the Ger-manizatlon Ger-manizatlon of the world. (Signed) RUDOLPH VON PLASSMAN." New York, May 10 This superman theory is being overworked over-worked by our friends across the sea. There is nothing Germany possesses that the United States does not equal, and that is due in part to the fact that this country has drawn millions of Germans the very best blood of that empire Our foreign citlzenB have done much tq make us the great nation we are today and there is no race superior to the people of the United States In physical make up. mental attainment or moral worth. This talk of the superman Is nothing noth-ing more than the expression of a rich conceit. |